Fellow demonstrators also glued themselves across the entrances to the London Stock Exchange and five protesters including an 83-year-old man were arrested after climbing onto the roof of a DLR train at Canary Wharf underground station.

The group also held protests at the treasury to highlight its alleged “role in worsening climate change and ecological breakdown”.

Extinction Rebellion plans to hold a ‘No Food on a Dead Planet’ protest later today, which will take the form of a die-in at Waitrose in Granary Square to represent “the death of crops, the death of the soil and the death toll that will come from global food shortages.”